On 05/22/2013 08:22 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Hi, Please clean up the distaster package verification is. rpm -Va is so incomplete it spawned rpmlint, package-cleanup and not doubt others I forget about.
There's probably some overlap in what those utilities do but generally I see them as addressing different kinds of issues. 'rpm -Va' is about verifying the installed packages are intact wrt what the package originally contained. rpmlint on the other hand is more about detecting common packaging mistakes - things that are technically legal packages but ones that are not packaged by "best practises", including distro policies and all.
Even for the most basic checks its output is so useless and difficul to parse we've seen a critical path package like gdm shipped with the wrong file permissions without anyone noticing.
No disagreement there... if you have concrete proposal on how 'rpm -Va' output should look like to be easily parsable and sane, I'm all ears. Ditto if you know of some other tool performing similar function with sane(r) output.
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